Violence -

Violence

A Reappraisal

Kevin Duong (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
142 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-46062-8 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
Can political violence create freedom? What if the cost of violent liberation is too high? How does one even calculate that when the status quo is a condition of sustained violence? This volume brings together essays by political theorists, intellectual historians, and other social scientists to reflect on these classic questions anew.
Can political violence create freedom? What if the cost of violent liberation is too high? How does one even calculate that when the status quo is a condition of sustained violence? From reactionary movements globally to the everyday violence that makes the present moment so cruel, understanding political violence remains a difficult, multidimensional problem.

This edited volume brings together essays by political theorists, intellectual historians, and other social scientists to reflect on these classic questions anew. The chapters in this volume revisit major political theorists of anticolonial violence like the Vietnamese Ho Chi Minh, the American George Jackson, and the Kurdish Abdullah Öcalan. They also revisit canonical yet misunderstood writers like the French syndicalist Georges Sorel and the American feminist Valerie Solanas. Beyond major figures and intellectuals, the volume also features contributions on pressing contemporary debates like climate change, police violence, and the violence of speech. Together, these essays reveal political violence to be first and foremost an experimental, theoretical activity which has both enabled and frustrated the ambitions of the left.

This book will be beneficial reading for students and researchers of Political Science, History and Sociology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of New Political Science.

Kevin Duong is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, USA. He teaches political theory and intellectual history and is the author of The Virtues of Violence: Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France. Much of his research focuses on how the revolutionary agency of "the people" is expressed, but his interests extend beyond democratic theory to fields such as queer theory, political violence, the history of the human sciences, colonialism and empire, and the history of the left.

Introduction 1. Violence and Vietnamese Anticolonialism 2. Revolutionary Self-Defense as a Rival Ethics of Nonviolence: Rojava and Kurdish Liberation 3. George Jackson’s Perfect Disorder 4. Violence and Resistance to the State: Georges Sorel’s Reflections on Violence 5. A World without Men: Valerie Solanas and the Feminist Uses of Violence 6. Policing Potential Violence 7. Climate Change and the New Politics of Violence 8. Silence Is Violence, and So Is Speech

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Gewicht 281 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 1-032-46062-8 / 1032460628
ISBN-13 978-1-032-46062-8 / 9781032460628
Zustand Neuware
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